“End Nuclear Insanity Before Nuclear Insanity Ends Humanity.” ~llaw
Oct 31, 2025
Today’s Image . . .
A mushroom cloud rises from a test blast at the Nevada Test Site on June 24, 1957. (U.S. Energy Department via AP, File)
LLAW’s All Things Nuclear Review Today . . .
Somebody needs to talk to an adult at the White House and find out what the heck he’s talking about,” Kimball told Newsweek early Thursday. “I can’t discern his grumblings beyond what you can. If he’s talking about resuming weapons test explosions for the first time since 1992, he is misinformed about what that’s for and whether it’s necessary.” ~ Daryl Kimball, executive director of the Arms Control Association
Anyone on planet Earth who believes that reviving nuclear testing at the same time he is discussing nuclear “demilitarization” — which is not even a word with a meaningful official definition — is insane to the ‘nth-degree’.
This kind of “seriously” wrong and twisted childish speech along with one man’s insane spur of the moment orders to the Pentagon to restart nuclear testing after 33 years of stepping away from such nonsense is a self-aggrandizing mental illness and must be silenced — especially if the “he” is the President of the United Sates — because such talk incites mistrust and invites this unstable world’s urge to demand nuclear war — the very thing we are trying in vain to rid ourselves from, but to the best of us are allowing, or maybe inviting, their leaders free reign to end the world as we once knew it even if a paltry few of us should survive by the grace of some unknown divinity.
As Darryl Kimball bluntly points out above — somebody needs to talk to an “adult” in the White House. I assume it’s because although Trump is incompetent in every way there is to run our government, he is “misinformed” about the most serious problem on planet Earth. I would say he is “mistaken” just as he is in so many other functions of our federal government.
I keep wondering how long we are going to continue to allow this deranged man’s presidency to continue on with his unqualified administration and the blood-sucking sycophants to continue threatening the very lives of us all — including innocent animals — for what would amount to a virtual eternity . . . ~llaw
Today’s Feature Story from LLAW’s NUCLEAR WORLD TODAY is from category. . .
Nuclear War Threats
NEWS
Donald Trump’s Nuclear Announcement Sparks Alarm: ‘He Is Misinformed’
Published
Oct 30, 2025 at 01:51 PM EDT
updated
Oct 30, 2025 at 04:06 PM EDT
By Joshua Rhett Miller
Chief Investigative Reporter
Newsweek is a Trust Project member
The resumption of nuclear weapons testing by the United States will undermine national security, arms control advocates told Newsweek.
Daryl Kimball, executive director of the Arms Control Association, denounced President Trump’s directive for the Department of War to immediately restart nuclear weapons testing for the first time in more than 30 years as reckless and unclear.
“Somebody needs to talk to an adult at the White House and find out what the heck he’s talking about,” Kimball told Newsweek early Thursday. “I can’t discern his grumblings beyond what you can. If he’s talking about resuming weapons test explosions for the first time since 1992, he is misinformed about what that’s for and whether it’s necessary.”
President Donald Trump speaks with reporters aboard Air Force One shortly after taking off from Busan, South Korea, en route to Joint Base Andrews on …Read More
Kimball said Trump’s announcement on Truth Social on Wednesday was likely to spark strong opposition in Nevada, where the last nuclear detonations in the U.S. occurred underground, as well as potential ramifications abroad.
“It’s not militarily, technically or politically necessary,” Kimball continued. “It would lead to a chain reaction of nuclear tests by other countries, including Russia, probably North Korea, maybe China, and it would undermine U.S. security because the United States has conducted more nuclear tests — 1,030 — than any other country.”
Trump’s proposal will also face “tremendous opposition” from Congress, Kimball said, including legislators in Nevada like U.S. Rep. Dina Titus, who indicated late Wednesday she intends to introduce legislation to “put a stop” to Trump’s proposed shift.
The resumption of nuclear testing at the former site in Nevada would take up to 36 months and cost up to “hundreds of millions,” Kimball said.
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A mushroom cloud rises from a test blast at the Nevada Test Site on June 24, 1957. (U.S. Energy Department via AP, File)
“Many hundreds of millions of dollars,” he said. “If you can imagine, you’ve got to drill a vertical shaft, you have to bring in cranes, equipment, drillers, personnel. You have to make sure that containment is right and you have to get federal reviews, etcetera, etcetera. Congress would have an opportunity at some point to block this.”
North Korea is the lone country to have conducted a nuclear test explosion this century and the United States signed the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty in 1996, Kimball said.
“Most of all, we need to be asking why,” Kimball added. “What is the purpose? How does this advance our interests? This would take us back to the worst days of the Cold War where the U.S. and the Soviet Union were conducting tit-for-tat atmospheric nuclear test explosions to simply show the other side that we’ve got big bombs too.”
U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer, left, speaks with reporters aboard Air Force One as President Donald Trump listens, shortly after taking off…Read More
Kimball said Trump’s announcement represented an “incoherence and inconsistency” regarding nuclear weapons, citing prior recent calls to denuclearize.
“And now he’s talking about responding with our own nuclear tests,” he explained. “It’s incoherent, it’s illogical and when it comes to nuclear weapons, we simply cannot afford the kind of zig-zagging policies that we’re seeing from Trump on so many other topics.”
A message seeking additional details from the White House on Trump’s directive was not immediately returned on Thursday.
Alicia Sanders-Zakre, policy and research coordinator for the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN), characterized Trump’s announcement as “incoherent, untrue and alarming,” alleging his misrepresented the size of arsenals in the U.S., Russia and China.
Trump has also mistakenly claimed that China and Russia are currently testing nuclear weapons and directed the incorrect agency — the Department of War — to resume testing rather than the Department of Energy, which oversees the nation’s nuclear warheads, Sanders-Zakre said.
President Donald Trump, left, and Chinese President Xi Jinping, shake hands after their U.S.-China summit talk at Gimhae International Airport Jinping…Read More
“The fact that Trump referenced Russian and Chinese activities and the Department of War could be interpreted as signaling that he was referring to testing nuclear-capable missiles, which all three countries do regularly test,” she told Newsweek.
The most recent nuclear test in the United States took place at the Nevada National Security Site, where nearly 1,000 detonations have occurred. Other U.S.-led detonations have happened in New Mexico, the Marshall Islands and Kiribati in the central Pacific, where joint testing occurred with the United Kingdom, Sanders-Zakre said.
In 2005, the National Cancer Institute estimated that 22,000 cancers resulting in 11,000 U.S. deaths would be caused in the aftermath of the Nevada nuclear tests, Sanders-Zakre added.
“Nuclear detonations in the Pacific obliterated entire atolls, and left others uninhabitable to this day,” she wrote in an email. “It was due in large part to the nationwide and global opposition to nuclear test detonations – and their clear devastating impacts for people and the environment – that nuclear test detonations were prohibited by the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty in 1996.”
President Donald Trump speaks with reporters aboard Air Force One shortly after taking off from Busan, South Korea, en route to Joint Base Andrews on …Read More
Any move by the United States to restart nuclear testing will evoke “widespread national and global condemnation,” Sanders-Zakre said.
The United States is slated to spend $95 billion on its nuclear arsenal per year over the next decade and ICAN estimated global nuclear spending last year at $100 billion, she said.
“Any additional funds wasted on weapons of mass destruction is diverting resources that could address real security needs,” Sanders-Zakre wrote in an email.
A senior Russian lawmaker, meanwhile, also warned Thursday that any move by the United States to resume nuclear testing could trigger global instability.
Dr. Emma Belcher, a nuclear proliferation expert at Ploughshares, a nonprofit that aims to reduce nuclear threats, described Trump’s directive as “reckless, needless and dangerous” for national and world security.
“While the details of this policy shift are unclear, including whether Trump is referring to missile testing or explosive nuclear tests, it threatens to upend relations between nuclear-armed states and push the world deeper into a new arms race,” Belcher told Newsweek in a statement. “If the U.S. breaks its 30-year moratorium on nuclear tests, China and Russia will likely return to wide-scale explosive testing. On the international level, this will heighten the risks of great power competition and increase the likelihood that strategic tensions lead to nuclear catastrophe.”
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Nuclear World News for Friday, (10/31/2025). . .
All Things Nuclear
NEWS
Trump says he wants to resume nuclear testing. Here’s what that would mean – NPR
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CNN
“Russia has nearly completed their modernization of all of their nuclear … about a change in the decades long moratorium on nuclear testing. The …
Trump’s Call to Resume Nuclear Testing After Decades Revives a Cold War Debate
The New York Times
… all the other countries conducting nuclear tests. “We’ve halted it … “Yes, we can learn things by nuclear testing,” Dr. Hecker said in an …
Nuclear Power
NEWS
Trump’s big nuclear reactor push raises safety concerns – Reuters
Reuters
The deal is one of the most ambitious plans in U.S. atomic energy in decades, underscoring President Donald Trump’s agenda to maximize energy output …
Nuclear saber-rattling from Trump and Putin signals a dangerous new era | CNN
CNN
“The Poseidon’s power significantly exceeds that of our most advanced intercontinental ballistic missile,” the Russian president told his already war- …
Trump’s Call to Resume Nuclear Testing After Decades Revives a Cold War Debate
The New York Times
… nuclear weapons: a nuclear–powered cruise missile and an undersea torpedo, called Poseidon, that could cross the Pacific and strike the West Coast …
Nuclear Power Emergencies
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Homeowner shares story of surviving 3-day blackout caused by ‘freak storm’ – MSN
MSN
“If you develop a plan for emergencies to power the things you … Another shuttered nuclear power plant is getting new life, thanks to Big Tech.
International mission measures Latvia’s nuclear readiness – Reliable news from Latvia
Reliable news from Latvia – LSM
… nuclear and radiological emergencies, according … Latvia does not operate any nuclear power plants. The country uses …
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The New Voice of Ukraine
DTEK, Ukraine’s largest private energy company, confirmed “serious damage” to several thermal power plants across the country. Emergency blackouts …
Nuclear War Threats
NEWS
California Gov. Gavin Newsom pans Trump’s nuclear testing directive: ‘Weakness … – NBC News
NBC News
… War to start testing our Nuclear Weapons on an equal basis. That process will begin immediately.” He also claimed in the post that the United …
Trump’s remarks on nuclear testing upend decades of U.S. policy. Here’s what to know
PBS
… threats to both the U.S. and Europe during its war on Ukraine. Moscow … nuclear threat rises. By Mari Yamaguchi, Associated Press. People …
Donald Trump’s nuclear announcement sparks alarm: ‘He is misinformed’ – Newsweek
Newsweek
Video. Rebecca Ferguson On ‘A House of Dynamite’ And The Nuclear Threat … War to immediately restart nuclear weapons testing for the first time …
Nuclear War
NEWS
Trump appears to suggest the U.S. will resume testing nuclear weapons for first time in 30 years
PBS
… War-era escalations. “Because of other countries testing programs, I have instructed the Department of War to start testing our Nuclear Weapons on …
Trump’s Call to Resume Nuclear Testing After Decades Revives a Cold War Debate
The New York Times
President Trump explained the order by saying other, unnamed nations were testing their own nuclear weapons, even though no country has tested …
Trump says he wants to resume nuclear testing. Here’s why experts are confused – CNN
CNN
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Weekly Roundup of News from iaea.org
10/30/2025
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